#!/usr/bin/python

import codecs
import sys

error_handling = sys.argv[1]

text = u'pi: \u03c0'

try:
    # Save the data, encoded as ASCII , using the error 
    # handling mode specified on the command line
    with codecs.open('encode_error.txt', 'w', 
                    encoding='ascii',
                    errors=error_handling) as f:
        f.write(text)
except UnicodeEncodeError, err:
    print 'ERROR:', err
else:
    # If there was no error writing to the file.
    # show what it contains.
    with open('encode_error.txt', 'rb') as f:
        print 'File contents:', repr(f.read())
